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Blackboard Jungle , 1955 — Today's online Harvard Crimson :
The mention of Gauss in today's previous post, along with recent news, suggested this post. "How do you get young people excited about space?" — Megan Garber in The Atlantic , Aug. 16, 2012 Further details:…
The American Mathematical Society yesterday: Harvey Cohn (1923-2014) Wednesday September 10th 2014 Cohn, an AMS Fellow and a Putnam Fellow (1942), died May 16 at the age of…
For Loren D. Olson, Harvard '64: "Even 50 years later, I remember his enthusiasm for a very young and very gifted Harvard professor named Shlomo Sternberg, one of…
This post is continued from a March 12, 2013, post titled "Smoke and Mirrors" on art in Tromsø, Norway, and from a June 22, 2014, post on the nineteenth-century mathematicians Rosenhain…
“The service is described as as a dating app for the elite….” For examples of dating, see The Date and August 16, 2014. See also…
“I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.” — Joan Rivers See also this journal on the above date, 24 March 2009: The Child Trap.
In memory of Joan Rivers This post was suggested by the previous post's quote "the subject’s desires are scripted and orchestrated by an unconscious fundamental fantasy," and by one of…
(Continued) Plato at Stanford: Lacan and the Matheme of Fantasy “… [in] the matheme of fantasy ($ ◊ a ), the diamond-shaped “lozenge” (poinçon ) ◊ can be read as a…